| Correspondence | 4 |
| The stem-cell sell | 5 |
| Before there was a Vatican | 6 |
| Got religion? Click here. | 7 |
| Gallicho, Grant | |
| Lies, damn lies & statistics: In India, when a census taker asks questions, he already knows the answers. | 8 |
| McGowan, Jo | |
| 'Barbed-wire Sunday': A construction project that divided East & West Berlin | 9 |
| Rodden, John | |
| ANTHROPOLOGY WITH A DIFFERENCE: How Mary Douglas makes sense of hierarchy, ritual, and the nature of religious change. A profile. | 11 |
| Baumann, Paul | |
| A.I.: How Steven Spielberg & Stanley Kubrick imagine the future | 20 |
| Cooper, Rand Richards | |
| The Metaphysical Club | 22 |
| McGreevy, John T. & Menand, Louis | |
| Thinks... | 24 |
| Lodge, David & Miles, Jack | |
| Bad News | 26 |
| Schmuhl, Robert & Shogan, Robert | |
| Religion booknotes | 28 |
| Cunningham, Lawrence S. | |
| Blueberry hill | 31 |
| Byrne, Katharine |
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